Tag : Documentary Photography

Destruction Of Coastal West Bengal Due To Fequent Cyclones Caused By Global Warming

Destruction Of Coastal West Bengal Due To Frequent Cyclones Caused By Global Warming By Jit Chattopadhyay

A few days ago, cyclone Amphan swept over Bengal. Last year, cyclones ‘Fani’ and ‘Bulbul’ also hit West Bengal. Bengal has never seen such frequent cyclones in the history of the last few decades. Various parts of the country are in a state of devastation due to successive cyclones. Especially…

Personal Best: Garima Agarwal

My Personal Best: Indian Documentary Photographer Garima Agarwal

Garima Agarwal is a Documentary Photographer working independently and is based in Delhi, India. The majority of her work revolves around the cultural and environmental conditions of different sections of society. Within the span of 5 years, she has traveled over 100 cities in India and Nepal. She has extensively…

An Amazonian Story: Xingu - Indigenous Territory By Renato Stockler

An Amazonian Story: Xingu – Indigenous Territory By Renato Stockler

Introduction In late November 2018, a friend journalist Clarissa Beretz invited me to a non-commissioned project. She had obtained air tickets to travel and accompany the meeting of the indigenous peoples of Mato Grosso. The meeting took place during the last week of November 2018 at the Xingu Indigenous Park,…

Political Devotion By Kaushik Dutta

Political Devotion By Kaushik Dutta

People in India, find it important to participate in the different chapters of the political arena, where an apparent mode of democratic value is preached and emphasized throughout. There lies the confluence of passion and impulse. There lies their Pathetic Fallacy in politics. India is not a land of a…

The Last Savings By Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

The Last Savings: Photo Story By Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

The world is at risk of widespread famines caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The impact of the global economic devastation caused by Covid-19 has already declared as the worst humanitarian catastrophe since the Second World War. The number suffering from hunger could go from 135 million to more than 250…

My Personal Best: Swiss Photographer Regula Tschumi

My Personal Best: Swiss Photographer Regula Tschumi

My name is Regula Tschumi and I live in Switzerland. I am a social anthropologist working as a freelance cultural mediator and photographer in the field of arts and museums. My history with photography begun during my PhD research in Ghana. But only after completing my studies in 2014 I…

Unseen Heroes: The Cleaners of Dhaka City by Saiful Amin Kazal

Unseen Heroes: The Cleaners of Dhaka City by Saiful Amin Kazal

In the 16th century, after the genocide of Magh pirates, the first generation of sweepers was established to clear the dead bodies. After the partition of Bengal in the year 1905, the importance of sweepers was highly noted. During that time, cheap cleaners were brought from Madras, Kanpur, and Nagpur.…

My Personal Best: Documentary Photographer Juan Galán

“The last year of my University degree in psychology in Salamanca (Spain) I wanted to learn something new not related to my previous formal education. The Faculty of Fine Arts is located in the same building where I used to study so I asked the photography professors if I could…

Life by the River Ganges by Arka Ghosh

Life by the River Ganges by Arka Ghosh

River Ganga flows through West Bengal. And the city life of Southern West Bengal has been emerged by both sides of river Ganges. As both sides of the river emerged equally, people have to cross the river from one part to the other and vice versa throughout the day. In…

Biharis of Dhaka: Stateless People by Vilen Gabrielyan

Bihari of Dhaka: Stateless People by Vilen Gabrielyan

Following the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 between East and West Pakistan, the Bihari were left behind in newly formed Bangladesh. An Urdu speaking minority group, they were viewed by many as being Pakistani collaborators during the war, despite some Biharis fighting alongside Bangladeshi forces for independence. In 1974 an…

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